“Good sleeping weather” last night, in the 50’s. The ground wasn’t too hard and I had invested in a camp pillow that was a revelation.
Did a little writing and watching the sunrise and then after seeing fish feeding right off shore and seagulls catching minnows, I thought I’d better throw in a line. Tried a few casts but no luck. I changed to a minnow deep diver and moved to my lucky cove where I had caught a Northern last night. Two casts in and I had a strike. A frisky, two-pound walleye!
When I had first gotten up, Kos was already out and about. He said he had seen a small predator (marten?) and a grouse by my tent. He also caught a smallmouth.
A hearty breakfast of eggs with veggies and last night’s chili; copious bacon and grilled bagels with maple syrup. After breakfast, Kos and Nate headed out with the fish finder to catch some big ones. They were out for about two hours exploring the Art Lake portage into Buckingham lake. Nate reported seeing lots of tadpoles and baitfish and that water from Art flowed into Rawn at that point as well making for a classic fishing scenario. Nate and Kos checked out a campsite on the next island down-lake. “Park-like but small”, and then worked their way back. Kos has now caught a Northern, a smallmouth and a walleye, ¾ of the way to a grand slam, missing only a Laker.
(Mark) N&K back at 11–explored the lake, used E’s fishfinder and found a 100’ deep spot. Kos caught a nice smallmouth on a top water lure (small Heddon Zara Puppy). The boys all took a swim and Nate & Kos took naps. I did a lot of camp chores and then Jim and I broke out the Ruzicka’s jalapeño/cheese salami. Upper 70’s, overcast, a little hazy, almost no mosquitoes. Took a refreshing swim.
Nate says his job title is “cloud engineer”. An eagle pooped on his tent.
The weather forecast calls for rain on Thursday and significantly more rain and wind on Saturday so we are thinking that we will start back on Friday, get a campsite on Pickerel for the night and head out on Sunday.
Mark catches a smallie.